"Michelle" - Think it would have worked better as an instrumental. "Wait" is one of my very very favorites on thisalbum. Voting off something so good this early in the game is puzzling.

And I have a comment on live Beatles. If the monitors and sound systems would have been better, even in 1966, they had plenty ofability. They had too many live in the studio tracks to say they couldn't play well live in the right setting. Wind, especially, can changethe way a performance sounds when being filmed from just a short distance. Films from places like the Poll Winners shows and Shea andCandlestick all suffer from the conditions they were filmed in. I don't know about you, but I think the Roof Top performance is damn good.Produced great versions of great songs. If you set the mics up right, the wind matters less.

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Rubber Soul is an album by the Beatles, their sixth UK album, and the tenth released in America. Released on 3 December 1965, it met with a highly favourable critical response and topped record charts in the United Kingdom for several weeks, as well as in the United States, where it was issued with a different selection of tracks.

Produced by George Martin, Rubber Soul incorporates a mix of 1960s pop, soul, and folk music styles. The album's name comes from the term plastic soul, which popular African American soul musicians coined to describe Mick Jagger, a white musician singing soul music. It was the second Beatles album – after the British version of A Hard Day's Night – to contain only original material, and was recorded in just over four weeks to make the Christmas market. Unlike the five albums that preceded it, Rubber Soul was recorded during a continuous period, whereas the group had previously made their albums during breaks between tour dates and other commitments. The project marked the first time that the Beatles focused on creating an album as an artistic work, an approach that they then developed with Revolver (1966) and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967).

The album has been included in numerous "best of" album lists compiled by various publications, and is regarded by musicologists as a major artistic achievement that continued the group's artistic maturation while attaining widespread critical and commercial success. In 2012, Rubber Soul was ranked number five on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2013, after the British Phonographic Industry changed their sales award rules, the album was declared as having gone platinum.